Our understanding of the Civil Rights Movement is often rather simple, bringing to mind sit-ins, marches, and of course, Martin Luther King. In biopics and movies, it also seems that our sweet Brother Martin singlehandedly brought the American Negro into freedom, with the help of a few of his bros and the occasional supportive phone call from Coretta. This is the reflection of history that I think would have horrified Ella Baker, not because she is not represented in it, but because it can often seem as if the Civil Rights Movement was one group led by one man speaking for all of Black America. Further study, however, reveals people like Ella Baker, without whom our understanding of Civil Rights would be greatly revised.